a couple of coincidenceless moments today.
1. john and i went to brunch with a few people today and he had a new shirt on that he thought was paisley print. it wasn't, so i showed him what paisley was on my phone. then this afternoon we went to a textile museum in dupont and there was an interactive room about fabric stuff, and there was a stamp pad and one of the stamps was a paisley.
2. i mentioned how last night, the darts guy kissed my hand. that hasn't happened to me/i haven't seen it happen to anyone else since i'm not sure when. years. and then john, abha and i went to see a movie this evening (which was amazing. called 'an education') and the man kissed the girl's hand and john looked over at me. random but connected.
fun day. it's going to be interesting to go back tomorrow. early morning!
lesson of the day: all tea is made from the same kind of leaves. green tea and black tea are just processed differently in terms of how much they're oxidized. oolong tea is in the middle somewhere and you can have oolong green tea, or oolong black tea. my fav is oolong green. yumm.
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Now, there is a doctoral study in the making! Tea. It must have already been done. Aunt Pam
ReplyDeleteMy parents got some really nice tea as a present once. They're not tea dri kers so it sat there for a year or two. One day, my mom decided to do sme spring cleaning. She opened up the can of tea and sa that it had started molding so she threw it away. Later she was talking tonsome friends and the subject of tea came up and they started talking about that, so my mom mentioned that she threw that tea away because it had molded. Her friends told her that it was supposed to do that and molded was the best time to drink that tea. It was a very good tea. Apparently, my mom threw away $300.
ReplyDeletei'm not sure i could drink moldy tea even if i knew it was supposed to be moldy
ReplyDeleteAnonymous- I've been studying Chinese tea culture for 9 years and I've never heard of a tea that was "supposed to be moldy." Correct me if I'm wrong but I think there must have been some mistake... Perhaps your mom was given a Chinese tea called puer (普洱茶) that is usually (not always) compressed into cake or brick shapes. This tea often fetches high prices and it can get better the older it gets, it can also get moldy if it is stored in too humid a place. While a little mold is not harmful if rinsed well, and some people do like the flavor, it is generally considered bad.
ReplyDeletemegan - oolong green - would refer to "lightly oxidized" tea. The darker oolongs have some combination of either more oxidation, more roasting or both. (I'm headed to Taiwan next to buy lightly oxidized high mountain oolong teas in the Lishan and Hehuanshan (梨山 and 合歡山) areas!)